June 5, 4 pm, in Saskatoon (Amigos) and Regina (The Exchange)

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT:

I think we’re living in what is, for the first time, collectively regarded as an impoverished time for the arts. I think that there has been a staggering collapse in the social value of what we think of as the arts…. What my father represents is a person standing in this one category that is unanimously referred to as the golden era – the people that produced Dylan, Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell, Neal Young, my father and several others – and there he is, standing on the heap of his work, in this sort of appocaliptic, cynical time.

Adam Cohen, “Q” – CBC Radio One, May 15, 2012

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Here’s an amazingly long list of some of the Saskatchewan performers whose music was recorded and featured on CBC Radio Saskatchewan in JUST the last 2 to 3 years – I wonder how many musicians this would be if you counted ‘em all up, including backup bands?